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  1. In Japan... on In Japan, Old People Talk to Robots · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Japan, sanity is talking to a robot called Snuggly Ifbot :-/

  2. Re:Univerersally applied? on Lying Makes The Brain Work Harder · · Score: 1

    My parents once gave my sister and I a math problem, some multiplication of two large numbers. Much to my chagrin, my sister came up an answer the fastest, to which my parents replied "Wow! That's right!" I worked so quickly to try to come up with the right answer, and I fumed about her getting it right until I realized that she had just made up a number...my parents really didn't know the answer either, but by acting confidently like they did, I couldn't see the lies until a minute later.

    What a ridiculous analogy. Where M is the work required to do the multiplication, F is the work required to tell a lie, and T is the work required to tell the truth, you telling us that T + M > F does not give us any reason to doubt that T < F.

  3. Re:Slashdot vs Firefox on Firefox News Roundup · · Score: 1
    It renders badly for me at least half the time. I have a toolbar bookmark pointing to:
    javascript:(function(){var s=document.body.style;var x=s.display;s.display='none';s.display=x;})()
    which cleans it right up.

    I found that fix here on /., but can't remember who to credit

  4. Re:FIX THE F***ING SLASHDOT BUG! on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 1
    Bookmark this link, then just click it to 'clean' /.

    javascript:(function(){var s=document.body.style;var x=s.display;s.display='none';s.display=x;})()

    Disclaimer: I read this fix here on /. - not mine

  5. RTFPP, idiot!!! on Amazon's A9.com Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are really interested in privacy, read the Privacy Policy. The first thing I did was print it out, and lo and behold, if you don't want to be recognised, you can use their alternate service at http://generic.amazon.com. On generic.A9.com, they won't recognise your A9.com or Amazon.com cookie, and the information they gather will not be used in their data analysis.

  6. Weird ring around the moon on "Blue Moon" Appears in Sky Saturday Night · · Score: 1

    We've just got home from a night out, and we noticed that there is a big ring around the moon (at least from here in Melbourne) - very strange. If I was sober I would google this interesting phenomenon - can someone just tell me what it is instead?

  7. Re:No, I did not read the article... on Cell Phones Becoming Profitless · · Score: 1

    That is true, but how long until phones have 4MP cameras built in? Just because they aren't good enough now, doesn't mean that the camera companies shouldn't be worried.

  8. Re:holy shit batman! on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1

    While technically correct, there is nothing there (except perhaps file extension) to denote that it is actually PHP, and I'd argue that you have to at least use one statement/command out of a language to actually make something count as being written IN that language. Otherwise, it's just written in English.

    Your example was:
    <?="hello, world!"?>

    While technically correct, there is nothing there (except perhaps file extension) to denote that it is actually PHP ;)

    How about:

    #!/usr/bin/php
    Hello, World!
  9. Re:holy shit batman! on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1

    Seeing as php just passes on anything not contained within

    <?php ?> or <? ?>
    tags, surely the best Hello World script is the following

    Hello, World!
  10. Better to put the start bar up the side on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 1

    I hate this feature - but as I frequently have 20+ windows open at a time I just put the start bar up the right hand side of my widescreen D800, and can have masses of windows open at a time with no difficulty whatsoever in accessing them.

    But then at heart (and at home) I'm a mac user - we tend to 'think different' ;-)

  11. Re:WOPR's 'guesses' on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Here everyone, r00t this guy."

    That means something quite different here in Australia! I'll pass, thanks :)

  12. In Soviet Russia... on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, people download scripts to wipe their home directories, and find that they install Word instead!

  13. Re:so archive it on Software To Stop Song Trading · · Score: 1

    and also, I should ask the obvious question: can it do .ogg ???

  14. so archive it on Software To Stop Song Trading · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this software going to intercept any archives (.rar, .tar.gz, .zip etc.), unarchive them and check them? I'm not against such software - Universities have a right to disallow file trading on their networks, just as I have a right to use an ISP which doesn't use such software for my home connection. However, I just think that this won't work, at least not without blocking or hindering so much legitimate use that everyone revolts against it.

  15. ah shit on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Lauded For Web Efforts · · Score: 1

    that was supposed to be in reply to the al gore comment.

  16. The web is not the internet on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Lauded For Web Efforts · · Score: 1

    I know you were being funny, but thought I should point that out :)

  17. The original usenet post on Happy Spamiversary! · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who are interested: The first use of 'spam' for spam

  18. iTunes is not installed with the OS on Microsoft Clips Longhorn · · Score: 1

    IIRC (unlike windows, I have only had to install OS X once), iTunes comes on a separate CD, along with all the other iApps. Also, if you don't want it, to rid your computer of iTunes is as easy as dragging the application to the Trash.

  19. Seems pretty obvious to me on Real Sues Baseball Over Windows Media · · Score: 1

    "The contract covers 'the season,' which runs from the first pitch of preseason to the last pitch of the World Series," Chiemingo said.

    I know nothing about baseball, but it seems to me that preseason, by definition, is not covered by 'the season'.

  20. Re:Internet Protocol Address Verifier? Pfft... on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 1

    There is also a very unique message ID at the end of the headers section:

    Very unique as opposed to ???

  21. Awwwwww..... on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1

    This whole age-cutoff thing is simply garbage - just like "Grand Theft Auto" itself - and sooner or later, I would imagine, we'll come to our senses and ban these games from public commerce, just like we ban child pornography and entertainment spectacles such as cock fighting and dwarf throwing.

    Even dwarf throwing is illegal now? :(